Since her little brother Tim drowned in Trieste, Paula has lost the will to live. When she encounters old Helmut, a widower who wants to drive the ashes of his late wife to South Tyrol, she sees a way out – to go to Trieste and take her own life on Tim's birthday. But during the journey, an unexpected friendship develops with Helmut – and her lust for life is reborn.
Sleeping with a Tiger is a hybrid film about the Austrian painter Maria Lassnig. A film about her struggle in the male dominated art world and the quest to find her own personal artistic way of expression in which she brings her inner pain on canvas. And of course a film about her great artistic success.
In their second joint case, detectives Lisa Kuen and Alexander "Alex" Yüsüf-Demir from the Innsbruck criminal police investigate a murder near a small Tyrolean town, where a dead man is found in the Wolfsschlucht, the victim was shot.
After the body of an escort girl is found in a mountain lake, the case quickly turns personal for the lead investigator.